Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Creative for one of our client's to create experiences that change the status quo, from strategy through to delivery.

The Creative Director is a coveted leadership position with ownership, authority and responsibility for the Creative output of the Design and Content team. In partnership with the Senior Creative and Leadership teams, this role is crucial to influencing our work, the culture, and reputation of our agency.

We have built an exciting team that is driving a new approach to paid and owned content creation that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do. You will be the driving force of all our creative output from best-in-class social and digital campaigns.

Key Responsibilities

- Produce industry-challenging ideas and present them in equally compelling decks.

- Independently lead fast-paced pitches but also love going the extra mile when painstakingly pushing running projects to perfection.

- Champion storytelling and are experienced working together with all creative disciplines.

- Developing leading edge creative ideas, designs and wider creative solutions that can work across all channels, with a major focus on social & digital.

- Leading the creative vision of the brand, working closely with the onsite team to develop best in class creative and award winning campaigns.

- Attending and actively contributing to kick off meetings, debriefs and all other working sessions with internal and client stakeholders.

- Working with strategy to help shape an ambiguous brief from a client into a clear brief for the team.

Business Requirements

Essential

- 8 years + experience within an agency setting using top-notch design/art direction and/or copywriting skills. Digital experience is a must.

- Demonstrable leadership across client accounts and ownership over the creative process from briefing all the way through to output.

- Experience building relationships with senior clients and client creative teams.

- Experience in setting creative direction across digital platforms and video content.

- In digital, the user experience is king, so you should be sovereign when shaping concepts that captivate and inspire.

- In-depth knowledge of social and digital, keeping your creative ideas on-trend and up to date with the platforms fast-paced innovations.

Desired

- Possess superb communication, time-management and process-management skills.

- Lead multiple project deliveries concurrently, from conception to completion.

- Support the hiring, managing and mentoring of creative team members.

- Nurture and grow a super-talented and diverse team of creatives across digital and content designers.

- Facilitate workshops, digital reviews and ideation sessions with internal and external stakeholders.

- Identify and build relationships with external creative and technology partners and resources.

- Lead from the front in ensuring the wellbeing of the team and establishing a strong culture based on collaboration, empowerment, creativity and innovation.